Admission

Carolina Friends School is a vibrant and inclusive learning community empowering students to think critically, creatively, and independently. Explore how your family can become part of our community of learners.

Community

At Carolina Friends School, community is formed and found in ways both big and small. Personal relationships are at the core of our work, and we greatly value the connection of our family and staff as well as our partnerships in the broader community.

Support CFS

Carolina Friends School has relied on the enthusiasm and gifts of its supporters and community members from its founding. Discover how you can further our mission and impact current and future students.

Admission

Carolina Friends School is a vibrant and inclusive learning community empowering students to think critically, creatively, and independently. Explore how your family can become part of our community of learners.

Community

At Carolina Friends School, community is formed and found in ways both big and small. Personal relationships are at the core of our work, and we greatly value the connection of our family and staff as well as our partnerships in the broader community.

Support CFS

Carolina Friends School has relied on the enthusiasm and gifts of its supporters and community members from its founding. Discover how you can further our mission and impact current and future students.

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Libraries

Carolina Friends School has two libraries on campus. The Lower School Library serves students in first through fourth grades. The Middle/Upper School Library serves students in fifth through twelfth grades.

Our Library Mission

Carolina Friends School (CFS) Libraries serve as spaces for the community to engage in thoughtful study, creative endeavors, individual and group activities, collaborative work, and independent reading. CFS Librarians aid in this work by teaching information literacy and digital citizenship skills, promoting lifelong reading and learning, and serving as resources for a variety of needs. In keeping with our Quaker philosophy, the libraries support diversity in our collections and practices as well as in the spaces we provide for library users.

Meet Our Librarians

A Durham native, Cheryl has been working in educational and non-profit communities since 2003. She holds a B.A. in English and a certificate in Early Childhood Education from UNC-Chapel Hill. Cheryl taught in a Reggio Emilia-inspired preschool until 2008 when she and her husband, Albert, accepted an ESOL teaching placement for Peace Corps Micronesia. Cheryl’s experience abroad helped her to realize that librarianship is the place that many of her interests—service, education, and equitable information access—intersect. In 2013, she received a master’s in Library Science, with a focus on health resources, from North Carolina Central University. Cheryl served patrons of all ages in the Asheboro Public Library for three years before returning to her hometown in 2016. Outside of the library, Cheryl is preparing for certification as a Childbirth Educator and loves exploring with her two young children.

Ruffin joined CFS as the Middle School/Upper School Librarian in 2018. She has been a Middle and Upper School librarian since 2002. A Nashville, Tennessee native, she earned her B.A. in English at the College of William and Mary and her M.S. in Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. After teaching at Culbreth Middle School for four years, she moved north to Rhode Island, and served as Upper School Librarian at Moses Brown, a Quaker school in Providence, for 10 years. Ruffin's omnivorous curiosity and wonder lead her to many interests, including reading and writing, running, biking, swimming and doing yoga, knitting, cooking and gardening.

Carolina Friends School

Carolina Friends School is a vibrant and inclusive learning community empowering students to think critically, creatively, and independently. We foster active exploration and quiet reflection, individual endeavor and collaborative engagement. Inspired by Quaker values — pursuit of truth, respect for all, peaceful resolution of conflict, simplicity, the call to service — we teach our children that it is possible to change the world.